Michael Montecillo (@Montejam) profile picture

Hacker/Security Professional/Analyst/Researcher/Forensic Investigator and business strategist. None of my thoughts here reflect those of my employer & yada yada

Park City, Denver, NYC, SF, here & there
Joined January 2009
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So let me get this straight A teenager hacked Nvidia. Was arrested. Got out on bail Under supervision and without his laptop, hacked Rockstar to steal unreleased GTA 6 info How'd he do that without a laptop, you ask? With the hotel TV and a Fire Stick bbc.com/news/technology-6766…
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An early leak of the first GTA VI trailer appeared and disappeared trib.al/8s8UvVi
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2000’s tech industry: what if anyone could share any file for free 2020’s tech industry: what if a JPEG cost ten thousand dollars
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If you’re a CISO/dir of infosec planning a job switch in the new year do some recon before you interview: blog.bitdiscovery.com/2020/1…
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Are you ready for an exciting career? Come help NASA’s vision to reach for new heights and reveal the unknown for the benefit of humankind! Help us shoot for Mars and beyond. Work with me as the Deputy Associate CIO for Applications. #NASA Apply at usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetai…
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I watched a predictable result of Goodhart’s law occur in real-time during our ops meeting the last couple of weeks. Measuring a service’s operational excellence without *mainly* focusing on the customer experience is a fruitless exercise. – at Seattle, WA
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Replying to @chadwickboseman
It was the highest honor getting to work with you and getting to know you. What a generous and sincere human being. You believed in the sacred nature of the work and gave your all. Much love to your family. And much love from all of us left here.
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Congratulations to the #1 Amazon Best Seller in Ruby Programming… “The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: 550 Heart-Healthy Recipes to Lose Weight and Boost Your Immune System” 😂
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Bill Gates is setting up factories to manufacture 7 leading vaccine candidates before we know which is best & safest; we can test the vaccines in parallel, and then throw away all but the factory for the best vaccine. May save many months. Just extraordinary.
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Sxsw canceled!!!
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Online payment fraud attempts see 73% increase - helpnetsecurity.com/2020/03/… - @GetSift #cybersecurity #ecommerce #fraud #onlinepayment
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TODAY U.S. indicts, sanctions two Chinese men for allegedly laundering more than $100M through nine named Chinese banks, part of $250M North Korea stole in bitcoin/ cyrptocurrency hacks since 2017 to finance its banned nuclear weapons program. wapo.st/2wkQu4n
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#BSidesSF “Mental Health for Hackers” panel resources slide. Pls RT!
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Stop appending “gate” to every stupid little skirmish. It’s lazy and useless.
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BREAKING: Explosion heard in Green Zone, Baghdad. Details to follow.
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Hackers Stole 7.5TB of Secret Data From Russia's Intelligence Agency bit.ly/2Z71eg7
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•As a small business owner, you may be wearing many hats – NIST has a new #cybersecurity self-training to help you learn how to mitigate risks for the business and educate your team of best practices & resources. Download now nist.gov/itl/smallbusinesscy…
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Prediction: In a few months, the volume of spam, phishing and just about every form of cybercrime is going to increase noticeably. New privacy rules coming out of the EU are going to take away the single most useful tool available to security experts and researchers: WHOIS.
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Architecting for Security in the Cloud by @joshsokol @AppSecCali 2018 youtube.com/watch?v=wHxISe7g…
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Browser stored personal information there for the taking: Report #privacy #infosec bit.ly/2FkgK2I
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